Twin Films Fail To Add Up To Very Much Despite Dramatic Material. Oddly Cold And Clunky. Writer/director Ned Benson’s debut feature The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is actually three separate films. In its original, festival-ready […]

Another Messed Up Family Is The Centrepiece Of Dolan’s Latest Experiment. Intense. Anne Dorval, a regular collaborator of prolific young French Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan, plays the Mommy in question in his latest startling piece […]

Goddard’s 3D Voyage Is Visually Astounding. If Only They’d All Shut Up. For a film dubbed Goodbye to Language (Adieu au Langage) ageing French enfant terrible Jean-Luc Goddard’s follow up to last year’s Film Socialisme […]

Roger Ebert’s Greatness Shines In Steve James’ Graceful Doco. Inspirational Stuff. Steve James’ doco Life Itself, which borrow its name from the memoir of much-loved US film critic Roger Ebert, is neither a celebration of […]

This Has All The Right Ingredients To Make It A Classic Yet It Just Doesn’t Come Together. Cotillard, In A Role Written Specifically For Her, Shines But Phoenix Is Grossly Miscast & Renner Looks Lost […]

This Total Genre Mash Rom Com Scores Big Both On High Concept & Genuine Laughs. Invested Central Performances From Duplass & Moss Only Further Add Kudos To Charlie McDowell’s First (Incredibly Impressive) Feature. From the […]

A Mesmerising Portrait Of A Polarizing Political Figure. Morris Fails To Catch Rumsfeld Out In Any Depth But The Cat & Mouse Dance In The Documentary Is Engaging As It Is Frustrating. If you’re looking […]

Heart Stopping Goes Hand-In-Hand With Muscular Performances. Despairingly Beautiful. Part of the Masters & Restorations stream at this year’s MIFF, 1977’s Sorcerer is the personal favourite of The Exorcist, Killer Joe and The French Connection […]

Silly Fun That Could Have Been Sharper. Packed Full Of Crazy Cameos. French comic book artist turned writer/director Riad Sattouf’s second feature, Jacky in the Kingdom of Women (Jacky au Royaume des Filles) is an […]

Ira Sachs Socio-Economical Multi-Decade Gay Romance Drama (Try Saying That 3 Times Fast) Tries To Be Many Things All At Once. Even With Stellar Turns From Lithgow & Molina, The Central Plot Point Is Hard […]